ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,935, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-layer browser-based context emulation detection" was invented by Itamar Azulay (Mishmar Ayalon, Israel), Nitzan Frogel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Meir Baruch Blachman (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Tomer Cherni (Gany Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for multi-layer, browser-based context emulation detection, which may be implemented by a proxy for browsers. A policy may be enforced against requests if a request context indicates a restricted context. Context may be detected and...